Podcasts
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The celebrated biographer discusses his tenacious narrative of John D. Rockefeller
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Seymour Hersh is the author of the bestselling expose of President Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot . He is the recipient of four George Polk awards and the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
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The author of Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions talks about everything under the sun. Listen in. It's a gem.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel, The Color Purple , Alice Walker reads from some of her many essays.
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The Irish novelist discusses her controversial, bestselling book which chronicles themes of incest, rape, and poverty.
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The poet and essayist discusses her book about her involvement with a telephone crisis center.
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• Recorded Mar 12, 1998
The acclaimed authors converse on women's issues and their celebrated books: Roiphe's Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World and Shulman's Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen .
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The author and activist discusses the second volume of his monumental civil rights history series.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist discusses his true epic of Ed Rendell.
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The acclaimed filmmaker shares his memories from three decades as a basketball fan.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her love of history and baseball and the confluence of the two in her book Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
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The bestselling Philadelphia author discusses her beat-the-clock courtroom thriller.
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Cornel West discusses Race Matters in this 1997 recording from our archive.
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• Recorded Apr 29, 1997
James Carroll discusses in his first non-fiction book his experience of being an anti-war priest in the 60s.
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The novelist discusses the sixth book in his Albany Cycle.
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The much-admired author chronicles the intersections between her personal memoirs and national history, from fifty years of presidents to her post as the head of the Washington Post .
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gary Wills speaks about John Wayne's lasting iconic power.
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The author of the bestselling book, Moo , leads a discussion on the consciousness, culture and implications of serious novel writing.
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From the Booker Prize-winning Irish novelist is the story of a woman emerging from an abusive marriage, which the San Fransisco Chronicle called "a tale where the sadness and despair are redeemed because they are never denied."
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In an interview with Radio Times host Barbara Bogaev, Eco discusses his lyrical tale of a dreamer in search of meaning.
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